Author James Andrews

I'm a radio journalist working the breakfast shift, so I like going to the cinema on weekday afternoons when it's nice and quiet! Star Wars and comic book geek but also love quirky, different movies of all sorts.

You may not know his name, you quite possibly don’t know his face, but you’ll certainly have seen Doug Jones on screen somewhere. The former contortionist-turned-actor has appeared in a varied range of...

Saving Private Ryan. Catch Me If You Can. The Terminal. Bridge of Spies. And now, The Post. What do they all have in common? Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. As their fifth collaboration – a '70s-set...

Arriving against the backdrop of division, intolerance and hate that is 2017, Wonder is exactly what the doctor ordered to cheer us all up in time for Christmas. With a marketing campaign based around the...

Steve Carell has come a long way from loving lamp in 2004’s Anchorman. The Massachusetts native was once best known as loveable idiot weatherman Brick Tamland, The Office’s cringey boss Michael Scott and,...

The ‘plane crash survival drama’ sub-genre has been visited many times on screen over the years, from The Flight of the Phoenix and Alive to Cast Away and TV’s Lost. Now, twice Oscar-nominated director...

Welcome to By The Book, where we compare books with their cinematic adaptations. Are they faithful and delightful partners in storytelling, or are the authors turning in their graves through these unholy...

After the much-loved, yet much-feared, 1986 Stephen King source novel and classic 1990 TV miniseries, arguably the most famous work of coulrophobia-inducing fiction hits the big screen awash with hype. What a...

Have a quick think about your memories of the first Men in Black film. What immediately comes to mind is likely to include sharp suits, sunglasses, big-ass silver guns (and a certain tiny one), odd-couple...

They say the House always wins. Unfortunately, that's not the case in this hit-and-miss comedy from first-time director (and co-writer) Andrew Jay Cohen, but there are still some guilty-pleasure laughs to be...

Dwayne Johnson is the new David Hasselhoff. No, he’s not launching a singing career in Germany, but taking on The Hoff’s iconic role as Mitch Buchanan in the action-comedy big screen reboot of Baywatch....